This morning 4 May h 11-13 at Presidio Mattioli Prof. Francesco Olmastroni introduced the Laboratory on Public Opinion Survey Data, this year attended by two different classes of students: the first group comes from the Master Course in International Sciences/European Studies (Department of Political and International Sciences); the second group is enrolled in the Master in Public and Cultural Diplomacy (Department of Social, political and Cognitive Sciences). Next meeting will be on Friday 11 May h 11-13.

Crucial points emphasized during the 1^st LAB session:

• How to judge survey data: Are they reliable enough?
• Random or probability strategies
  
• The experimental design
  
• Preparing and testing the questionnaire
• Developing data analysis: the “codebook-coding-dataset” relation